X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46D63B86.4040209@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:37:42 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Crontab runs fine in cmd line not via CRON for expect scripts References: <12399572 DOT post AT talk DOT nabble DOT com> In-Reply-To: <12399572.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com John-Mc wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new here so please bear with me. I have a server running Windows Server > 2003 Std Edition w/ SP2 and for whatever reason I cannot get CRON to execute > my expect scripts. If I run them manually they run just fine. Another > co-worker has some perl scripts that kick off without any issues, can > someone tell me why Cygwin won't execute them. I'm including a copy of > crontab below, Thanks! Typically when scripts run fine from the command line and not from 'cron', it's because they explicitly or implicitly depend on some environment settings (i.e. variables) that aren't available when 'cron' runs. The typical solution is to make sure that you include those environment settings in your scripts or your crontab. FWIW, this is not a Cygwin specific issue. The same thing would happen to you running the script from 'cron' on other platforms. So if you find that this is indeed your problem, you may want to review the man pages for 'cron' and/or other 'cron' documentation. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/